Comments on: An Open Letter to David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, from Mrs N Turnerhttp://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-the-prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-from-mrs-n-turner.html
Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and powerFri, 09 Dec 2016 17:25:57 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.5By: DANNYBOYhttp://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-the-prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-from-mrs-n-turner.html#comment-972069
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:41:07 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-972069I am in your service. I wish I had an explanation for your daughter that could make sense of this all.
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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:44:10 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-971817Democracy has been so fraudulently ill applied and so recklessly abused by people who do not understand its meaning, that one could exclaim “Oh, Democracy, how many crimes have been committed in thy name!”
Time of sowing, time of reaping…
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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:42:51 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-971175Many thanks for all the comments on my letter. sadly I have not had a reply from Mr Cameron and, to be honest, I would be surprised to get one – what could he say in the circumstances?

However, if I do get one, I will let Naked Capitalism know. If I don’t get one I will keep posing the question – are bankers officially considered to be above the law? And if the answer is yes, then as my 21 year old daughter asked me – where does that leave the rest of us?

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:06:56 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-970478Sorry if somebody already mentioned this, but David Cameron has recently attacked ‘trashers’ of Britain’s banks so we should not expect much from him: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/12/david-cameron-trashers-banks
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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:42:05 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-969671When I was back there in
Seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord
With prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
You cannot petition the Lord
With prayer

The Telegraph newspapers are held offshore, via two Jersey entities, the May Corporation and Press Holdings, then ultimately by a Bermuda-registered entity called B UK Ltd. Aidan Barclay is a director of the latter entity, according to company documents. It is not clear which of these offshore companies is regarded as UK tax resident, and thus liable for British taxes. Barclay declines to say.

A recent high court judgment ruled that much of the Barclay twins’ business empire, including the Telegraph newspapers, is physically managed by Aidan and a group of four senior executives from a office at 20 St James’s Street in central London.

So the news about two sets of rules — one for the rich — is being published in a newspaper that is held offshore, for which the Brits can’t seem to wrangle tax fees out of the owners (who apparently would rather manipulate money via shell corporations than contribute to a functioning society).

It seems that such a paper might not actually understand there is anything wrong with Bailey’s claims.

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:32:07 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-969525“At the state level, most DAs and state Attorney Generals are elected. It would be possible to place honest people in those jobs with an election campaign.”

Why would you think this? We have a duopoly (the so-called “two” party system) that is completely corrupt. It may be theoretically possible to elect honest people in these circumstances, but it is extremely difficult and highly unlikely. And when, on occasion, honest people make it to statewide office, they either capitulate to the party structure to stay in office, or they do not win re-election.

I’m afraid we have a systemic problem, not just at the federal level, but at the state level also.

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:22:26 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-969423Perhaps we should rethink it to . . . “government works, if we can force it to”. What kind of force, how and where applied, what kind of movement or movements to study and design and apply that force, etc?
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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:02:38 +0000http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?p=36770#comment-969396“…undermine the legitimacy of the British state.”

Wait a minute…I didn’t know the British state had legitimacy. When did that happen? When has any state had legitimacy? The foundations of all modern states lie deep within the bowels of hard-core sociopathy (Cf. history).